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ULEZ works. It’s that simple. Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.

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Who radicalised him?

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Dear BBC the USA is not ‘stepping up pressure on Ukraine to agree a peace deal’. It is taking Russia’s side in the war.

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Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Thread: Did you know that Reform's next by-election win will be worth over £2.6 million to the party? Why? It's all down to the way short money works. Short money is official money that all opposition parties receive so long as they have 2+ seats, or 1 seat and 150,000 votes at the last GE. 1/4

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“Mrs Edwards said she used to bang it with her trowel to remove earth after gardening.” Glorious story.

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For the life of me, I do not understand why we are not talking, all the time, about ensuring Andrew Tate is banned on every single social network

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All those arguments about the expansion of Ulez feel like quite a long time ago, don’t they? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The war, the geopolitical uncertainty and the new arms race started by Putin have left Europe with no choice. Europe must be ready for this race, and Russia will lose it like the Soviet Union 40 years ago. From today, Europe will arm itself more wisely and faster than Russia.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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Is it time to stop this? 🔥 At the end of a week of burning ("swaling") on Dartmoor, here's a new feature on the varied issues with this hugely problematic practice. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/swaling

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🔴Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules The Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm bylinetimes.com/2025/03/05/m...

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Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules bylinetimes.com/2025/03/05/m...

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Almost nothing "good news-like" going on at the moment... apart from this ... from Florida's Attorney General

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This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

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🚨🚨In another shocking move of betrayal, there are reports that Donald #Trump has banned Britain from sharing intelligence from the United States with #Ukraine. Grim 🧵 www.thenational.scot/news/2498291...

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

My new post where I discuss the latest situation with bird flu in the US and how the Trump administration is significantly increasing the risks of a new pandemic. christinapagel.substack.com/p/state-of-p...

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BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron: 'I want to believe US will stand by our side but we have to be ready for that not to be the case We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'

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Given the general situation, it's quite impressive that the Tories spent nearly a FIFTH of the UK's annual defence budget on unusable PPE that was binned after Covid.

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🚨🚨 Breaking: The traitorous blackmailing Trump admin has suspended delivery of all US military aid to Ukraine, a White House official has said, blocking billions in crucial shipments as the US piles pressure on Ukraine to sue for peace with Vladimir Putin. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

The total cut off of deliveries to Ukraine is shockingly punitive. This is money already spent, equipment already built by industry for Ukraine, much of it has little utility to the US military. And it is just going to be sitting there in warehouses idle, as Ukrainian forces fight on.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

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🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

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James Cleverly says that this weekend Keir Starmer "really hasn't put a foot wrong."

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I’ll be on BBCR4 Today programme just after 7.30am discussing the Covid Inquiry’s extraordinary decision not to question a single PPE supplier this week - what an absolute whitewash.

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My trousers stayed up and no one rushed the stage and slapped me, so all things considered… a pretty good night. #Oscars2025

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'Go ski in Russia': Vermonters turn out to protest J.D. Vance amid his resort weekend www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-ski...

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Starmer literally having Zelenskyy’s back today while trying to build bridges. Somehow a huge relief to watch Starmer doing this so incredibly well.

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Sky News, "Ukrainians are ready for anything, even the loss of US support" "They are turning to Europe, hoping their European partners can step up and fill that void" Ukrainians preferring the stability of Europe to the chaos of the US under Trump Why isn't the UK preferring Europe to the US?

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This is one of the reasons why the Ireland/NI Protocol exists.

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A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

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This is classy. I think Starmer has got it wrong on where we should stand relative to Europe and the US but this is one of the first times I've admired him since he became PM.

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Amazing to note how much opposition from councils and MPs there was a decade ago: too expensive (£4bn!), too disruptive to locals, too long to build, and largely unnecessary, ran the argument www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Also worth noting that beyond YMS the line is that UK is gearing up to negotiate a broad range of topics with EU Read more on why I'd support this approach: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/EUatOU...

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Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

submitted 16 days ago • 414 comments

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

submitted 16 days ago • 206 comments

Everybody in the USA or UK who who is not MAGA or Reform & who still have the capacity for critical thinking should watch video & pass on to as many people as possible.Tan Smith is a very brave woman who constantly speaks truth to power & does not ignore the slide into fascism. Don’t ignore 💗🤷‍♀️

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More than ever, what happened between the Leave Campaign and Russia needs to be thoroughly investigated. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

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In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

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for the love of God. fucking honestly. “controversial salute.” it’s a nazi stiff arm salute. literally everybody knows this. “controversial” is a chickenshit word generally (what purpose does its use serve? hint: an editorial, not journalistic one) but when we’re talking about public nazi shit gah

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage. Be there if you can to support them 🙏

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True. But I have little confidence on whose side American troops will be deployed. For shame on Trump and Musk. Total moral failure. Which means having 🇺🇸 forces based in European countries a real risk that cannot be ignored.

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Elon Musk calling an Aerospace engineer ‘fully retarded’ has to be one of the highlights of his ‘edgy boi’ persona.

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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FACTS AND TRUTH MATTER Trump has suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia. That is not true. We all need to call this out

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“It’s time to make a stand. Trump is wrong; the world must say so. He’s taking the US down a disastrous path…favouring Putin’s gangster state over the democracies of a free Europe. He’s standing alongside murder & tyranny against democracy & liberty. His is a historic inversion of America’s destiny”

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I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦

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